Donald Trump, P.V. Sindhu top 2016 Google searches in India

New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- It was women power to the fore in 2016, as seven of the top 10 personalities who were searched for on Google in India, were women. The list included Olympians P.V.Sindhu, Dipa Karmakar, and Sakshi Malik. Not surprisingly then, Rio Olympics 2016 emerged as the top trending search query on Google India in 2016, followed by Pokemon Go, a game that took the world by storm.
Globally, the addictive game appeared four times in Google's list of top 10 "How to.", with "How to play Pokemon Go?" at the top.
US President Donald Trump emerged on top of the list of trending personalities both in India and abroad, followed at home by Sindhu who took the second spot.
Tinsletown of course couldn't be denied with Salman Khan's blockbuster Sultan and Rajnikant's Kabali occupying the top spots among trending movies. These were the top 2016 recap of trending stories released by Google on Wednesday based on trillions of searches made by Indians through the year.
The latest social media obsession Sonam Gupta, was a surprising number three while Indian gymnast Dipa Karmakar was in fourth spot followed by Bollywood actress Disha Patani who recently made her Bollywood debut in a biopic on Indian cricketing star M S Dhoni. Indian female wrestler and Olympic champion Sakshi Malik also featured among the top 10 trending personalities on Google.
A look at the year's top news moments reveals that while the Olympics topped the charts, Donald Trump's historic win in the US elections and Britain's withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit), were among the most popular searches. The 7th Pay commission, demonetization, and the strategic surgical strike on terror groups were also among the top 10 news moments of the year.
Globally, nine of the 10 top trending people of the year were involved either with the Olympics or the US elections. The one outlier? Steven Avery, the subject of Netflix's "Making a Murderer" documentary.
Published by HT Syndication with permission from MINT.